story: CHAPTER XXVII 
  
  WAITING 
  
  Ingleside, 1st November 1917 
  
  "It is November--and the Glen is all grey and brown, except where the Lombardy poplars stand up here and there like great golden torches in the sombre landscape, although every other tree has shed its leaves. It has been very hard to keep our courage alight of late. The Caporetto disaster is a dreadful thing and not even Susan can extract much consolation out of the present state of affairs. The rest of us don't try. Gertrude keeps saying desperately, 'They must not get Venice--they must not get Venice,' as if by saying it often enough she can prevent them. But what is to prevent them from getting Venice I cannot see. Yet, as Susan fails not to point out, there was seemingly nothing to prevent them from getting to Paris in 1914, yet they did not get it, and she affirms they shall not get Venice either. Oh, how I hope and pray they will not--Venice the beautiful Queen of the Adriatic. Although I've never seen it I feel about it just as Byron did--I've always loved it--it has always been to me 'a fairy city of the heart.' Perhaps I caught my love of it from Walter, who worshipped it. It was always one of his dreams to see Venice. I remember we planned once--down in Rainbow Valley one evening just before the war broke out--that some time we would go together to see it and float in a gondola through its moonlit streets. 
questions: Which literary giant wrote about Venice?
questions: Did the the narrator ever visit the city?
questions: But did he feel close to it?
questions: How did he describe it in his own words?
questions: Who else was in love with the city?
questions: Did he visit it?
questions: Did he plan to visit it?
questions: With whom?
questions: Was there a specific place when they planned about it?
questions: Which place?
questions: When?
questions: What they would wanted to see there?
questions: What disaster they were talking about?
questions: Did they feel hopeless?
questions: Was someone trying to conquer Venice?
questions: Were they successful yet?
questions: How about Paris?
questions: When it seemed they would conquer Paris?
questions: What sea is by Venice?
questions: What the city is called in reference to the sea?
answers: Byron
answers:  Although I've never seen it I feel about it just as Byron did
answers: no
answers:  Although I've never seen it I
answers: yes
answers: Although I've never seen it I feel about it just as Byron did--I've always loved it--it has always been to me 'a fairy city of the heart.' 
answers: "a fairy city of the heart"
answers:  'a fairy city of the heart.' 
answers: Walter
answers:  Perhaps I caught my love of it from Walter, who worshipped it. 
answers: no
answers: It was always one of his dreams to see Venice. I remember we planned once--down in Rainbow Valley one evening just before the war broke out--that some time we would go together to see it and float in a gondola through its moonlit streets
answers: yes
answers: that some time we would go together to see it and float in a gondola through its moonlit streets.
answers: the author
answers: . I remember we planned once--down in Rainbow Valley one evening just before the war broke out--that some time we would go together to see it and float in a gondola through its moonlit streets.
answers: yes
answers: down in Rainbow Valley 
answers: Rainbow Valley
answers: Rainbow Valley 
answers: just before the war broke out
answers:  just before the war broke out
answers: gondolas
answers: float in a gondola through its moonlit streets.
answers: The Caporetto disaster
answers: The Caporetto disaster
answers: no
answers:  Susan can extract much consolation out of the present state of affairs. The rest of us don't try. Gertrude keeps saying desperately, 'They must not get Venice--they must not get Venice,' as if by saying it often enough she can prevent them. But what is to prevent them from getting Venice I cannot see. Yet, as Susan fails not to point out, there was seemingly nothing to prevent them from getting to Paris in 1914, yet they did not get it, and she affirms they shall not get
answers: yes
answers: 'They must not get Venice--they must not get Venice,
answers: no
answers: 'They must not get Venice--they must not get Venice,' a
answers: no
answers: in 1914, yet they did not get it
answers: 1914
answers: there was seemingly nothing to prevent them from getting to Paris in 1914,
answers: Adriatic
answers:  Queen of the Adriatic
answers: Queen of the Adriatic
answers: Queen of the Adriatic